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Blogs, Social Media Will Now Have a Greater Impact on Your Google Traffic

As you've probably noticed and/or read about, Google has rolled out its newly redesigned search results pages after experimenting for quite some time. Searchers are now met with a left-hand navigation panel similar to what is offered on other search engines like Yahoo, and Bing. The biggest difference is that this is Google and way more people use it.

Consider These 8 Sources of Web Traffic

Over the last year or two, I've written a number of articles about different ways to get traffic to your website. Here is something of a compilation of these concepts. Obviously search engine optimization is an important component, but I'm going to leave that out here. Facebook

Connect your Blog with the Twitterverse

Blogger, the Google-owned blog platform, is suggesting that you use Twitterfeed to tweet your new blog posts. This is a way to expand the readership of your blog, as well as participate on Twitter without actually tweeting things about you life.

A Local Directory for Your Business Blog

Yesterday we talked about making sure your local business is listed in online business directories. Abby Johnson discussed this in a video. If your business has a blog, you may want to also look into this directory called WikiCity, which is calling all local bloggers to help grow its location-based blogroll directories (hat tip to Matt McGee).

Business Blogs Only Work if You Use Them

The New York Times recently ran an interesting piece about how most blogs on the web are abandoned, or at least very rarely updated. The article cites a study performed by blog search engine Technorati, which found that something like 95% of blogs it tracks had not been updated in the past 120 days (from the time the research was collected). Is This a Problem That Plagues Your Business?

Tweeting with Value and Blogging to Compliment it

The other day we talked about blogging for business, and how it was the last thing on the list of social priorities for most businesses according to data presented by eMarketer. Of course, we have also repeatedly discussed various business benefits to the use of Twitter.

Where is Blogging on Your List of Social Priorities?

Everybody's going on and on about how businesses should be using social media. Obviously that includes me, as you know if you've read SmallBusinessNewz for any length of time. What are small business owners actually using social media for though? What do you use social media for? Tell us.

Small Business Blog Use Still Lagging

It sounds like small business owners, on the whole, may not have a fantastic understanding of how valuable blogs can be.  A new report indicates that this group's use of the medium has doubled in the past year, but that only brings the current percentage of users to about 40.

Manage Your Online Reputation in Real Time

We've discussed online reputation management repeatedly at SmallBusinessNewz, but are you using real-time tools that are available to you to monitor and defend your reputation? The web is much more about conversation than it once was. It used to be that most web-based conversation took place mostly in email or on forums. Now the conversation is everywhere. It's on Twitter. It's on Facebook. It's on blogs. It's EVERYWHERE.

Social networks/Blogs Overtake Email in Global Popularity

It seems Internet users are more likely to send you a poke than an email these days as Nielsen reveals that social networking has overtaken email in popularity. Nielsen’s latest survey, "Global Faces and Networked Places" (.pdf), found that over two-thirds (66.8%) of the global online population spend time at Member Communities, a category that lumps together social networks and blogs.